A friend of mine posts on his blog “lay summaries” of papers he writes, which I’ve always thought is a good use for a blog, though I’ve never gotten around to doing it. One of my graduate students will defend his Ph.D. in a few days, and so this seems like a good opportunity to … Continue reading Dancing Membranes
For the second time this winter, Eugene has been hit by snow, which brings the town to a halt. The university is closed, but my lab is buzzing along nicely and I’ve had a more productive day than usual due to the lack of meetings. If only I could shut down the university and disable … Continue reading The Snow Raccoon
This week’s bad graph* plots three-dimensional data with a squashed perspective, hiding any scatter of the points along the “out of plane” axis: The cognoscenti will recognize the plot as visualizing the outcome of principal component analysis (PCA), in this case applied to the microbial communities in mice fed dust from homes** with dogs (D) … Continue reading Bad Graph of the Week (in 3D!)
The Eighteenth Elephant 